The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

The subject of this documentary is a straightforward one: presenter Andrew Wallace-Hadrill introduce...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest miss...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

A docu-film that traces the victorious ride of Mancini's Azzurri, from the debut match to the final ...

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betray...

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Documentary released to coincide with the British Museum's exhibition dedicated to the man who ruled...

Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other one 65, are the core of a community th...

"...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Cale...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid...